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by persolb 18d ago
Maybe won’t work for your site; I’ve been leaving flat files open, putting anything that needs processing (like search and login) behind Anubis.
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by persolb 1y ago
There are at least dozens of us doing this. My $5k bloated corporate laptop sits in my office 24/7. The 25% of time I’m traveling is with a $300 Chromebook with Linux Mini, a Bluetooth mouse, and logged into to a Windows VM. Now that e
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by persolb 1y ago
I think the root of much of this are money laundering rules. The feds want to be able to punish bad guys without actually proving the crime they are suspected of. There are now a large set of rules which the government isn’t efficient enoug
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by persolb 1y ago
Everything about this looks fake, and Tesla confirmed it wasn’t real. Not finding great sources right now: https://www.carscoops.com/2025/08/rapper-fakes-video-claimin... I would be amazed if there are not interlo
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by persolb 1y ago
In order to consistently output the same fake prompt, that fake prompt would need to be part of GPT’s prompt…. In which case it wouldn’t be fake. You can envision some version of post LLM find/replace, but then the context wouldn’t mat
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by persolb 1y ago
It is doable but highly location based and still really tight. I’m in a tier 2 US city. Our interns wage would equate to $58k annually. A car isn’t needed if in the city. Most people have a roommate, which works out to just over $1k a perso
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by persolb 1y ago
State governments do this too. NY under Cuomo just dictated a 10% cut to invoiced labor. It was widely understood that saying no meant no more work in the future.
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by persolb 1y ago
Potentially this is like giving an axe murderer an uzi. They don’t need it, but they’ll probably be more effective.
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by persolb 1y ago
Alon Levy being brought up on this topic always tweaks my “but somebody is wrong in the internet.” I’ve been on several of the projects he talks about. He’s right about the macro numbers and the general vibe, but often wrong when he starts
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by persolb 1y ago
I really like this idea; I’ve made crappy versions myself a few times…. Maybe this one will stick. (For others, it’s a method to follow people across multiple services without being a normal feed. A person who updates only shows up once.)
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by persolb 1y ago
Is AmEx any better? I’m planning to cancel my Mastercard with this gatekeeping as a reference to why. It seems to be the most effective lever most of us have.
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by persolb 1y ago
It’s done in various places. NJ Riverline is an example. There are a bunch of others. The bigger problem is the freights just have no interest in sharing the tracks with passenger trains, and requiring heavier and more expensive passenger t
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by persolb 1y ago
As a mid size company that does work with government agencies, it’s near impossible to use anything ‘better’ solution. Cybersecurity requirements are getting so onerous that Sharepoint is too commercially feasible of an option to use anythi
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by persolb 1y ago
Having H1-B visa employees introduce overhead. Not all companies are willing to do it. We’ve recently decided to stop H1-Bs for anyone that isn’t a senior hire.
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by persolb 1y ago
I wish they’d named FSD as Autopilot. FSD is amazing and I use it door to door wherever I drive. I got a LOT better about a year ago. But it still makes some dumb mistakes. It is not ‘full self driving.’ It’s 99% percent Autopilot… but I st
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by persolb 1y ago
I believe this is only used on one passenger line in the entire country. This is really a freight based system intended to transmit brake apply signals as speed of light instead of speed of sound. Since passenger trains are usually short an
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by persolb 1y ago
Yeah. Exactly. The consequence of this club is either: 1) The brakes take an extra couple seconds to apply (note: this is only used on long trains… so stopping is over a minute anyway) 2) The emergency brakes apply. This is considered a saf
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by persolb 1y ago
It’s really frustrating seeing all this about something I know about. ‘Slamming in the brakes’ is the default safe condition for a train. The freight train Positive Train Control does this automatically if the operating engineer breaks cert
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by persolb 1y ago
This isn’t how US trains work though. There is literally an air pipe from end to end. It leaking air is how the brakes are normally applied. The system with the vuln is just an overlay.
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by persolb 1y ago
I work on trains. This is FUD. Except for 1 train in the US, no passenger trains use this function. It is only for long freight trains. If you block it, the train still brakes…. Just the propagation is at the speed of sound instead of speed
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by persolb 2y ago
I've actually used this fact in a related way, for wayfinding. Old school Open-CV was able to see tracks well from an onboard monocular camera, but calibration and scale was annoying. Track width is accurate enough that I was able to u
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by persolb 2y ago
Substack simply has better quality. I've been involved in some things a handful of times that made it into the paper. Technical laws being passed, corruption, complains about a system failure... In every instance the only thing that wa
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by persolb 2y ago
A coworker of mine was punched on NYCT. Went to the cop in the station, who did nothing, and was sore for a week. This is a case where it was ‘reported’, but the cop said they couldn’t do anything if he wasn’t seriously hurt. My other NY co
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by persolb 2y ago
I was going to say “I’d be surprised if organ support is a large issue to an adult. We already have long term astronauts and people who are bed ridden for a long time during recovery. I would expect an issue during development though.” Turn
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by persolb 2y ago
Exactly this. Facebook makes money by network effects. They are incentivized to grow network engagement, more than they are to make direct money off new network members.
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by persolb 2y ago
Is the air gap actually an issue in this case? If I'm understanding correctly, the suggestion is to put up additional cable instead of thicker cable. The two ends of the cable are both still connected to the same electrical phase, so t
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by persolb 2y ago
I think this somewhat makes intuitive sense. I think most people caught Covid. Covid was most risky for people who had other illnesses. In the universe without Covid, many of those people would have died anyway. The people who survived Covi
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by persolb 2y ago
I’ve never had a phantom brake on FSD. I know others have though… not sure what the difference is.
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by persolb 2y ago
Phantom slowdown doesn’t really happen anymore. I primarily don’t do it because of the stop sign issue and sometime some turn signaling without changing lanes. So basically… embarrassment. I don’t mind it driving like an old person, but I’m
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by persolb 2y ago
The latest version is really good, considering. Drives roughly like a bottom 20th-percentile driver. I use it 100% of the time that nobody is behind me. The worst thing is how it handles stop signs… it actually stops at the stop sign, then

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